Denmark tightens control at the borders after the incidents of burning the Koran
The Danish Ministry of Justice said in a statement late Thursday that police will tighten border controls in the wake of recent Quran burning incidents that have affected the security situation in the country.
And anti-Islam people in Denmark and Sweden burned and tore several copies of the Koran in the past few months, which sparked a state of anger in the Islamic world and sparked demands for the governments of the two countries to ban such actions.
The Danish government confirmed that it would initially tighten border procedures until August 10.
Danish Justice Minister Peter Hommelgaard said in the statement: “The recent incidents of burning the Koran have affected the current security situation, as the police said.”
In a previous interview, Hommelgaard considered that “burning the Qur’an could have dire consequences for the country and for friendly countries (in Europe), in addition to security challenges,” noting that the discussions in his ministry revolved around “special measures to stop cases of insulting other countries, cultures and religions, negative consequences for Denmark.
The center-left-right coalition government in Copenhagen is divided over legislation banning the burning of copies of the Holy Quran.
Yesterday, Thursday, seven Danish opposition parties expressed their objection to the government’s efforts to make it illegal to burn Qurans, considering that enacting legislation in this regard would be an unacceptable restriction on freedom of expression.
The anger of the Islamic world over the desecration of copies of the Qur’an in front of the embassies of Muslim countries in Denmark and Sweden prompted the governments of the two countries to say that they would discuss ways to prevent the burning of the Qur’an legally.
The opposition parties said in a joint statement that banning the burning of the Koran would contradict the principles of freedom of expression in Denmark.
Last Monday, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, backed by the defense and justice ministers, tried to convince party representatives that the continued burning “harms Denmark’s interests and the security of its citizens.”
Rasmussen, a camp of experts, and former security officials, such as the former head of the intelligence service (Pitt) during the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, Hans-Jürgen Bonnexen, consider that Western interests require confronting the current crisis of burning the Qur’an in a different way than the cartoons of 2005 and 2008.
Former politicians support the trend towards banning the burning of copies of the Qur’an, including former foreign ministers Moines Lukatoft (center-left) and Pierre City Mueller (center-right).
(Reuters, The New Arab)
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2023-08-04 06:00:40
